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Firefighter injured in house blaze

JAMAICA HILLS–An early-morning blaze today at a 14 Pond Circle house left one firefighter briefly hospitalized with third-degree burns, according to the Boston Fire Department (BFD).

The two residents were not home when the three-alarm fire struck, according to BFD spokesperson Steve MacDonald, who tweeted photos of the blaze. When firefighters arrived around 1 a.m., there was “heavy fire, front and rear, all floors,” MacDonald tweeted.

BFD estimated the damage at $650,000. A cause has not yet been determined.

Ladder 10 from JP’s Centre Street firehouse goes to work on the fire this morning at 14 Pond Circle. (Photo by Steve MacDonald/Boston Fire Department)